Hi,
I have a csv file with a list of stocks that I want to buy for each date. The CSV file is uploaded to dropbox and looks something like this:
DATE, 0, 1, 2
2014-01-01 BOBE, F, AXE
2014-01-15 GM, NFLX, TSLA
2014-01-29 GM, F, AXE
etc.
I want to rebalance every two weeks.
Thank you!
https://www.quantopian.com/help#overview-fetcher might be somewhat relevant. This is for loading stock prices, but the general strategy for accessing external data seems to be to host it with a publically available URL (like on dropbox) and then just access that URL from your algorithm. Something like:
context.buy_on = {}
for row in csv.reader(urllib.open("http://dropbox.com/your/csv/file")):
date = dateutil.parser.parse(row[0])
symbols = row[1:]
context.buy_on[date] = securities(symbols)
Now buy_on is a dictionary mapping from dates to the symbols to buy on that date.
Now in handle_date you have a check like
today = get_datetime().date()
if today in context.buy_on:
buy_stocks(context.buy_on[today])
That should be a start.
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